Mullin Threatens Election Officials

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"Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin threatened local election officials on Friday with prison time if they did not comply with the Trump administration’s efforts to change election policies, while reiterating many of President Trump’s unsubstantiated claims about the security of American elections.

Mr. Mullin pledged to “dig in just a little bit deeper” than a prime-time speech that Mr. Trump gave on Thursday, when the president claimed without concrete evidence that American elections were rife with “hacking, manipulation and corruption.” The secretary largely stuck to similar talking points, repeating the president’s unverified claim that the government had found hundreds of thousands of noncitizens on voter rolls in at least four states. Neither Mr. Trump nor Mr. Mullin offered any specifics on how they derived those numbers, and officials in at least two of the states said their voter rolls were properly maintained.

Mr. Mullin also repeated claims that foreign actors could exploit vulnerabilities identified in election systems to change votes, despite offering no evidence that such a breach has ever occurred. Cybersecurity experts and election officials say that such a scenario is extremely unlikely, as voting equipment is generally not connected to the internet and most hypothetical scenarios of tampering would require physical access to machines.

The secretary’s remarks follow an increasingly vocal effort by the Trump administration to use the power and pulpit of government to bolster the president’s long-held false claims about elections. Mr. Trump’s speech on Thursday, coupled with Mr. Mullin’s pledge to continue pressing those false claims, was a significant escalation of such rhetoric and risked creating additional chaos and doubt for election administrators and voters alike as the midterms draw near.

The louder and more aggressive claims come as the president and his allies seek greater control over the levers of the nation’s election infrastructure, despite clear legal limits. The Constitution grants the power to govern elections to Congress and the states, and grants no explicit authority to the executive branch." —New York Times

Let's take a wild guess: this is where the "facts" are leading those "fact-following" fascists—right up Trump's pathetic crooked lying ass.

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